100 Chinese proverbs Fuel cells have a number of advantages for China. They can help reduce the country’s reliance on imported energy as well as raw materials. While lithium-ion batteries require a host of metals such as cobalt, lithium and nickel, most fuel cells only require platinum, of which there is an abundant supply, as a catalyst, at a level of around 0.5 to 0.6 grammes per kilowatt.In terms of resource adequacy, it’s a lot easier to see how you do it for fuel cells than for lithium-ion batteries.If you go to the northern rim of the Bushveld [in South Africa] there’s enough platinum to electrify the entire auto fleet.
There are more than 100 domestic electric vehicle makers in the Chinese market.“Can we identify electric car and fuel cell producers that will survive the inevitable consolidation? At some point there will be a war of attrition.
Tens of thousands of aging wind turbine blades made of fiber glass are coming down around the world with nowhere to go but landfills. When fuelcell power plants reach end-of-life, it simply completes the circle,93 percent of the entire power plant is re-used or recycled right back into the circular economy supply chain promoting sustainability.
It was Welsh scientist and justice of the peace Sir William Grove who, in 1839, discovered the principle of producing electricity from an electro-chemical reaction between hydrogen and air.
He called it the 'gas battery', though what we now know as the fuel cell wasn't really a feasible electricity producer until the mid 20th century. In 1955 General Electric’s Willard Grubb and Leonard Niedrach produced the first hydrogen-and-oxygen fuelled, proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, the type used in almost all automotive applications. It was one of these PEM fuel cells that was used by Nasa to generate power for the Gemini project in the 1960s.